I personally never use Button symbol when creating a button, I always use MovieClip or Sprites and then I add to it button functionality. For example the simplest button I can think of is a green rectangle. We can make this kind of button very easily bellow I show you how: Draw the green rectangle, you can do this either on the time line or using ActionScript, I will do this with ActionScript (if you [...]

Today I accidentally run into new (for me) Tweening engine for AS 3.0, It’s called Tweensy. For my daily tweening I personally use Tweener becuase it’s free, for example when you use TweenMax (which is great) you have to buy a license to use it commercially. Tweensy is a free library, and it can be uses freely in commercial projects. Here is a short description of Tweensy: Tweensy is an extremely efficient Actionscript 3 property [...]

It have been some time from my last post, I will try to write more often, sorry guys. Below I post few interesting news I found in the couple of last days: Audio Interview: Adobe’s Justin Everett-Church Discusses SEO and Flash Content I really advice for any developer to listen to this, but for those of you who are interested in Flash and SEO it’s a must listen pod cast! You can learn allot from [...]

Just came across really cool website it’s called “Clients from hell” it’s a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers and developers really fun to read, I have also some client based stories I am going to post there for others as a warning ;)

Two days ago Adobe pleased us with two great news, first one Adobe AIR 2.0 beta public was released (already blogged about it) and also Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is out! Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, [...]

Adobe has just released the AIR 2.0 public beta you can download it from the Adobe Labs website. Adobe AIR lets developers to bring Flash experience to users desktop. AIR is aveliable on Windows, Mac and Linux. Some of the new features: Support for the detection of mass storage devices. Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets. Support for native code integration. The ability to open a [...]

Lately there was allot of buzz around flash on iPhone. Apples incredible phone is on the market for over 2 year but still there is no native Flash Player for it’s OS. Apple claims that it’s Adobes fault in answer to that Adobe CEO has directed a parody of Myth busters, it’s called Adobe Myth Hackers: Flash on iPhone! (you can watch it here) Few weeks ago Adobe has announced partial list of Flash CS5 [...]

XML Flip Book / AS3 is fully XML driven. We have put allot of work into it to ensure all your needs are fulfilled. This project is constantly improving, recently we starting to work on Flip Book wordpress plugin and Swfpress admin panel implementation. See preview | Purchase Features Overview: Most of those features can be disabled in the XML, if for example print option is not needed you can easily disable it in the [...]

After few months after releasing the 0.5 version of iFlashDen I decided to do an upgrade. After fixing some bug I decided the app will change it’s name to iEnvato and now it will support all of the Envatos marketplaces! So no meter which marketplace are you using (ActiveDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive or GraphicRiver) this application is made for you. Main changes: support for all Envatos marketplaces, proper displaying of time, now it shows your [...]

First book about Papervision3D just came out. It’s called “Papervision3D Essentials“, for those of you who don’t know what Papervision3D is, it’s an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform (For more information visit google code). Papervition3D Essentials was written by Jeff Winder and Paul Tondeur. It covers most aspects of Papervision3D, contains 13 chapter and 428 pages. You don’t need to be a hard core Flash Player coder to understand this book, it’s [...]